Literary Agents Who Respond FAST
While you certainly shouldn’t choose which agent to query based on who responds quickest, knowing the response times of agents can nonetheless be a great help. Once you have your initial query list pulled together, sending the first batch to some agents who have a history of quick responses can help you determine whether your query package (particularly query letter) is working the way you hope.
Knowing how helpful these lists were for me while I was querying, I wanted to share what I could. Below you’ll find who had the fastest response times for me, as well as general information on response times.
How I Got My Literary Agent
Let’s start with the obvious: querying is hard.
Querying in the midst of a pandemic, massively overworked literary agents, and a changing publishing landscape is especially hard. Anyone who is doing it should honestly get a gold medal in perseverance (also, probably chocolate for, ya know, the feelings).
I’ve always found posts about how authors manage to cross that proverbial finish line to be immensely helpful and encouraging in the past, so I wanted to do my part and make my own!
Follow along for some real talk, statistics, and a healthy dose of humor along the way.